Kitchen Garden Vegetables Limoges Boxes
Vegetable Limoges boxes are the harvest that never wilts. The rows hold a green artichoke, asparagus spears large and small, a fennel bulb, eggplant, a ripe tomato and pea pods that split to show their peas. The pepper patch runs from a mini red bell to a medium green one to a spicy chili. Corn comes as small and large ears, the bigger with a ladybug riding on the husk, and there is even a corn husk teapot. Fall brings a wheelbarrow of pumpkins and a harvest pumpkin with seeds, while a soup tureen painted with vegetables finishes the menu.
Every garden has a thief, and this one has several. Rabbits nibble carrots, snuggle on top of one and even drive a carrot car, and a turtle gardener guards his lettuce. Each is porcelain, shaped and painted by hand in Limoges, France, with a hinged lid and a little metal clasp, and many boxes in this group keep a small surprise inside. Put an artichoke on the kitchen windowsill, asparagus beside the cookbooks, or give a tomato to the neighbor who brings you more zucchini than anyone needs. For the chef in the house, a pepper or pea pod makes a better thank you than another apron.
